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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335
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Motherhood and the allocation of talent
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582323
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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072943
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624916
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540560
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
earnings among the employed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509636
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Gender differences in the skill content of jobs
Pető, Rita; Reizer, Balázs - 2021
There is significant heterogeneity in actual skill use within occupations even though occupations are differentiated by the tasks workers should perform during work. Using data on 12 countries which are available both in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440264